From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 10:03:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89A4516A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.boundariez.com (mail.boundariez.com [216.36.108.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3488C43D49 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ralph@boundariez.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:58:04 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... Thread-Index: AcQfHBKSQO9/i8JlTPmJ20PC7RVCIgAANQjw From: "Ralph M. Los" To: "Josh Paetzel" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:03:07 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Josh Paetzel [mailto:friar_josh@tcbug.org]=20 Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:56 PM To: Ralph M. Los Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Hi, > I've got my FreeBSD box as a file-server. I added in a 60gb disk I=20 > want to copy the data off of, and format for FreeBSD, slice out, etc. > When I go to /stand/sysinstall and try to label "ad5" (the added 60gb=20 > disk), I get an error. I go to Label, and select "Mount Point" by=20 > pressing "m", and get this error: >=20 > Fatal Error: Bogus partition under cursor??? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT >=20 > after which it promptly throws me back to my prompt, erroring out of=20 > sysinstall. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to=20 > mount that disk read-only for now? >=20 > Thanks all in advance. not sure if this is what you want, but here's what I 'think' you might be=20 looking for: mkdir /dos mount_ntfs -r /dev/ad5s0 /dos Hope this helps. Josh Paetzel -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D Josh - like a charm. The -r option didn't work though, complained about being an illegal option. I guess I'll just try and NOT write to it :) Thanks